Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-04-14
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

SCHOOL AND CHURCH.
The Church Missionary Society
gets $100 900 from the mite boxes
The true ancestor Of progressive
orthodoxy seems to the Casistias Lc05-
e to Be discoverable in Bushnell. tho
famous Hartford theologion.
The Frce-Win Baptists Of Ameriea
report 62,S2S members. an Increase
during the year Of 1. COS; !. $40 churches
and .2s1 ordained ministers.
Bethany Church has opened .
coffee and free reading-room in New
ark. N. j.. and i've hundred young
men visited it during the first month.
Fifty thousand dollars has been
given toward establishing missionary
bishopric in Fiji. At San Paulo. . Bra
lillian recently made . gift of 1--WE thou
sand dollars toward erecting boys
training school
The New York Ch1stian Adrooaae
thinks ''there are five hundred hypo-
critics, impostors and cranks of one sex
Or the other getting living as temper
ance lecturers, evsngelists. etc, in the
United States and Canada"
The First Presbyterian Church a
New York. which has existed more
than one hundred years without any
other musical instrument than . pre-
centor's tuning-fork. has at last yielded
to modern progress and will purchase
$50. 000 organ.-N. +. Hail
-Ex-President White. of Cornell,
predicts that eventually there will be
formed . great educational system
worthy Of this country. in which the
public schools will give the basis. the
colleges the intermediate education.
and the universities the most advanced
general and professional instruction
During 1886 there were S.SsS
matriculated students at Edinburgh
University. being the largest number
ever known there. OF these. 1915 were
in the faculty of medicine. 1.122 in ths
faculty of arts. 400 in the faculty Of
law. and 10S were in the faculty of d.
vinity. Not more than forty per cent
of the medical students are Scotchmen.
Rev. j. d. r Brown. a successful
revivalist Of Illinois, was soldier, and
lost an arm in the war IF the rebellion.
About year ago pension was grant
ed to him. and he received seven thou
sand dollars back pay. This he at
once. as he said. devoted to the Lord;
and he is using it to build and main
tain churches in his district-N T.
Sun.
The committees of the Northern
and Southern Presbyterian churches.
to make arrangements for the centcn-
NAL celebration in 1888. have agreed
that the celebration shall take place the
fourth Thursday in May. 1883. in PhiIa-
helphia. Commemorative services will
be held and addresses delivered
the speakers to be from the Northern
and half from the Southern Presbyte-
man Church.
The following figures give soma
dea of the Roman Catholic mission
work: At present India has 26
Bishops and Archbishops and 1900
priests; China and Japan. 50
Apostolic Wears and 1.40O missiona-
lies: Africa, Archbishops. II Bishops.
Il Wears and 16 Apostolic procedures;
British America has 80 Bishops and q
700 priests; Australia. q Bishops and
100 priests
The young lady teacher of public
'chool at Santa Rosa. Cal. was very
iesirous of giving an exhibition" At
he close of the term. and drilled the
scholars in declamatiOns. Rotations.
tic. The pupils were strongly averse
o the project. fearing the criticisms Of
-isitors. and when the dreaded day ar
lived and all preparations were COM
,leted. the teacher was surprised by
he absence of visitors. of whom she
lad invited many. The reason was
made apparent by the subsequent dis
'overy that the pupils had surrepti-
iously pinned card on the door after
ne school hour. which read: ..Exami-
.ation day! No visitors admitted this
SEA.SiCKNESS CilRE